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What are ‘assets’?
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What are asset-based approaches?
• The asset-based approach is a little like a strengths-based model of care: it focuses on what someone or something has going for them, rather than what deficits or problems they have.
• So it’s a strengths-based model for an individual.• However, it goes further than that.• Since the need for cutbacks in public sector budgets and the
introduction of Big Society ideas (community self-help), the focus of attention for public services has turned from:
what could be done for communities to
what communities can do for themselves.
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What are asset-based approaches?• Asset
• Based
• Community
• Development
• Or..... ABCD
• In 2012 the White Paper Caring for our future stated: ‘strong communities can improve our health and wellbeing and
reduce health inequalities’
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What are asset-based approaches?• Assets are therefore part of a public health approach to improving
risky lifestyle behaviours such as substance misuse. Such public health initiatives should:
– Take an holistic approach to individuals’ total health status– Encourage an asset-based approach to address risk and
protective factors – Focus on prevention, early intervention, and reduce health
inequalities (PHE 2013)
• NICE (2014) recommends that public health interventions and programmes should focus on strengths of the individual and their community and help people to:
‘recognise how their social contexts and relationships may affect their behaviour’.
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What are asset-based approaches?• So, asset based approaches focus on the assets of:
• the individual– i.e. resilience, individual social capital and connectedness
• the assets of the community• resources available, social networks, existing and potential self
help
• and the relationship between the two.
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Asset-based approaches in problematic substance use
• People with problematic substance use face multiple disadvantages, both personal and environmental (DWP, 2012).
• The Govt. Drug Strategy and the Alcohol Strategy both recognise the importance of ‘recovery capital’ and the need to develop these to help people recover (H.M. Government, 2010, 2012)
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Community partnership working
• The onus is on service providers to work with grassroots community groups to develop community assets that will help address health and wellbeing issues within the locale.
• In substance misuse, this is where Recovery Groups come in!
• See more on Recovery and mutual aid in the resources Understanding recovery and Pathways to recovery.
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ReferencesDepartment of Health (2012) Caring For Our Future: reforming care and support. Available at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/caring-for-our-future-reforming-care-and-support
Department for Work and Pensions (2012) Social Justice: Transforming Lives. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/49515/social-justice-transforming-lives.pdf
Home Office (2010) Drug Strategy 2010: Reducing demand, restricting supply, building recovery. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/118336/drug-strategy-2010.pdf Home Office (2012) The Government’s Alcohol Strategy. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/224075/alcohol-strategy.pdf
NICE (2014) Behaviour Change: Individual Approaches. NICE; Guideline PH49.
PHE (2013). Introduction to the Directorate. available at: www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-and-wellbeing-introduction-to-the-directorate/health-and-wellbeing-introduction-to-the-directorate
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